quailery

Noun

quailery (plural quaileries)

1. A structure in which one houses quail that are kept as a food animal.
   • A quailery should be dark (or the mailes will be always fighting), light being let in at early morning, at noon, and towards sunset, and the birds fed each time.1880, Allan Octavian Hume, The Game Birds of India, Burmah, and Ceylon, page 142
   • In Behar every prudent English resident keeps a quailery, as well as a tealery, on his premises, and a dish of fat quail is a very agreeable and wholesome change of diet when the weather is hot.1891 March, C.T. Buckland, “Some Birds in India”, in Longman's Magazine, volume 17